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Posted on 8/3/20 at 4:09 pm to TheFonz
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Recent events have started to show that it is less of a north/south divide, but an urban/rural divide. It's not all of the way there yet, but that's where we are heading.
This is absolutely true and I think it's further along than many think. You take the culture of deep east Texas and rural Ohio, and they are much more similar to each other than to nearby Dallas or Cleveland (for example). Regardless of race.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 4:11 pm to Lago Gato
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I’ve seen Austin turn into a big pile of crap . The mayor and city council has allowed far left activists to take over the city . No way I could live in that Shathole.
Austin isn't Texas. It's the Anti-Texas.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 4:39 pm to Ag Zwin
Dallas aint too far behind Austin...we were just there...
bums taking over JFK...
come on...i can see Malcom X...but CC? Dallas has changed a bunch since the 80's...
bums taking over JFK...
come on...i can see Malcom X...but CC? Dallas has changed a bunch since the 80's...
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:26 pm to guedeaux
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Not saying that BR people suck
That’s ok. I live here and I say it every day.
This post was edited on 8/3/20 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:27 pm to Godfather1
Some of them swallow.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:32 pm to TejasHorn
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quote:
Recent events have started to show that it is less of a north/south divide, but an urban/rural divide. It's not all of the way there yet, but that's where we are heading.
This is absolutely true and I think it's further along than many think. You take the culture of deep east Texas and rural Ohio, and they are much more similar to each other than to nearby Dallas or Cleveland (for example). Regardless of race.
There is no doubt of this. Driven, motivated people leave rural areas and lead driven, motivated lives in areas where they compete daily with equally driven, motivated people...people in rural areas who do not leave do so for a couple of reasons but many do so because they just can't cut it anywhere else...they have no drive, no motivation, no education, no skills and many are unable to gain any because, quite frankly, they ain't overly intelligent. Sure, they're friendly if they know you and you look and talk and think just like them and go to the same church...but be different and see how nice they are....
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:40 pm to Ag Zwin
It amazes me the number of people in the south who aren't southerners....a true southerner knows what "bless your heart...." means....that friendly facade is just that...a facade....it is not genuine, it is a ploy to dupe outsiders into thinking we are not as sharp as they are until such time as we can get the upper hand....and it works MARVELOUSLY.....
"Bless your heart...." has become something of a joke since folks from other parts of the country moved to the south and realized the duplicity of the south...and many southerners do not realize this, probably because they too come from stock not originally of the south.....but a true southerner knows damn well what being nice to outsiders is all about....
"Bless your heart...." has become something of a joke since folks from other parts of the country moved to the south and realized the duplicity of the south...and many southerners do not realize this, probably because they too come from stock not originally of the south.....but a true southerner knows damn well what being nice to outsiders is all about....
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:43 pm to Ag Zwin
I feel the same when I visit other college campuses.
Ags look each other—and especially visitors—in the eye and say, “Howdy.”
Ags look each other—and especially visitors—in the eye and say, “Howdy.”
Posted on 8/3/20 at 5:49 pm to Ag Zwin
quote:Enjoy it while you can. Leftists are on a mission to ruin it.
Now I get it. Makes me realize just how insidious it is to be around people who are so negative and timid all the time.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 6:24 pm to Ag Zwin
I used to go to Minneapolis/ St. Paul on business frequently but that was 20-25 years ago. I was trying to understand why they voted so DNC. After a while I understood it. The population was so lily white and their educational institutions were so far left that they really did not experience an ethnic underclass, so they looked down their noses at southerners who they assumed were stupid, racist, uneducated, etc. Now that they have imported 1/2 of Somalia and there is a higher density of black Americans, Hispanics, etc. they may be beginning to realize how badly they have screwed it up. Michigan followed a similar path. We actually get along much better with race relations in the south, despite the SCLC, SPLC and the race baiting politicos. BTW, Herman Cain was a great, great American but the northerners didn't warm up to him.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 6:36 pm to Ag Zwin
It’s extremely hot here
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:13 pm to kmdawg17
quote:You in the poor sections of Fort Worth, or the less poor section?
Moved to Fort Worth in Dec 2018, and we're very happy with our decision
*really like Fort Worth, though. People are chillaxed, but damn, there's a lot of liberals there for it being a cow town.
This post was edited on 8/3/20 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:22 pm to Ag Zwin
Get out of the twin cities. The average Minnesotan not in Minneapolis and St Paul and few other college towns would fit right in in most of the south.
And to the person talking about pointing you to the grocery store, in the rural parts of the state, the church pot luck game is strong. Food may not be as good, but they’ll make sure you get plenty.
And to the person talking about pointing you to the grocery store, in the rural parts of the state, the church pot luck game is strong. Food may not be as good, but they’ll make sure you get plenty.
This post was edited on 8/3/20 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:29 pm to Gtmodawg
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people in rural areas who do not leave do so for a couple of reasons but many do so because they just can't cut it anywhere else...they have no drive, no motivation, no education, no skills and many are unable to gain any because, quite frankly, they ain't overly intelligent.
We’d all starve without some of those folks.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:44 pm to Gtmodawg
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Driven, motivated people leave rural areas and lead driven, motivated lives in areas where they compete daily with equally driven, motivated people...people in rural areas who do not leave do so for a couple of reasons but many do so because they just can't cut it anywhere else...they have no drive, no motivation, no education, no skills and many are unable to gain any because, quite frankly, they ain't overly intelligent
Just as bigoted and ignorant as saying all people in cities are shallow, virtue-signaling poseurs.
I know lots of people in rural areas that are ambitious, intellectually curious, and driven. They just prefer to live somewhere with less crap around them.
Stop judging “the other side” by the caricatures or extremes. Says more about you than it does them.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:48 pm to Ag Zwin
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I know lots of people in rural areas that are ambitious, intellectually curious, and driven. They just prefer to live somewhere with less crap around them.
Yep. And if a few generations of them happen in a row, the family could most likely bury most of us in hundred dollar bills and they live in their own domain outside the rat race.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:02 pm to Gtmodawg
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There is no doubt of this. Driven, motivated people leave rural areas and lead driven, motivated lives in areas where they compete daily with equally driven, motivated people...people in rural areas who do not leave do so for a couple of reasons but many do so because they just can't cut it anywhere else...they have no drive, no motivation, no education, no skills and many are unable to gain any because, quite frankly, they ain't overly intelligent. Sure, they're friendly if they know you and you look and talk and think just like them and go to the same church...but be different and see how nice they are....
You know what winning the rat race makes you? I'm sure a smart fella like you can figure it out.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:09 pm to LSUROXS
I’ve been a Texas resident since Saturday and already love it. Had to deal with a few things down at the courthouse today and it was efficient and organized. So different from any government department in a Louisiana. Just more Mexicans, but they seem nice.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 8:58 am to NineLineBind
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We’d all starve without some of those folks.
Yes, the people who collect chickens and process them and other sources of food do live in rural areas....but the people who manage those operations live in Metropolitan areas...as do the people who finance those operations....the people working the land, even if they own it, are merely share croppers. This is more true than it is not...there are still some farmers who live on their own land and produce food but they are far and few between because corporate farming is far more efficient.
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